A 13-Year-Old’s Brutal Murder, the Teen Girls Who Were Arrested, and What Parents Can Learn

USA Today
By Rachel Hale
1/24/25

A 13-Year-Old’s Brutal Murder, the Teen Girls Who Were Arrested, and What Parents Can Learn

“Brutal, heinous, vicious, gruesome, monstrous and disturbing.”

Those are the opening words Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook used to describe the killing of a 13-year-old Ka’Niyah Baker, whose body was found on Jan. 15 in an abandoned South Carolina house. Police arrested and charged two girls, aged 15 and 16, with murder in the homicide case.

Baker’s body was found 20 miles away from where she was previously reported missing from foster care, according to comments Holbrook made in a Jan.